[OT] a text editor that is not mousepad :/

[TerryJ]

Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hello Randy.
>
> Randy Dunlap, 26.01.2007 17:39:
>   
>> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:40:17 +0100 Mike Massonnet wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 02:18:11PM -0500, Lehman Black wrote:
>>>       
>>>> One of the main reasons why I don't use Mousepad is because it doesn't have
>>>> syntax highlighting. Most of my text editing involves either writing bash
>>>> scripts or HTML markup.
>>>>         
>>> How about that one: http://www.triptico.com/software/mp.html.  A new
>>> release has just appeared on gnomefiles.
>>>       
>> Looks nice.
>>
>> or maybe http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
>>     
>
> I can’t recommend that one since it doesn’t support UTF-8 without BOM.
>
>
> Regards, Mathias
I installed an OS this morning which uses Xfce as the default desktop 
and it has *medit*, which someone mentioned earlier.  I've tried it and 
the big disadvantage it has for me is that it is very difficult to open 
hidden files, because of the type of file selector used.  In fact, I did 
not discover how to open hidden files with it.  As you know, there are 
many things to configure and change before an OS works the way you want 
and it's just so much easier and less time-consuming to use kate.

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Regards, TerryJ

Using Xfce on PCLinuxOS. www.revivalcentres.org